Japanese horror is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror...

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter...

Asian (mainly Japanese) traditions, with the Western approach to horror generally favoring action-oriented visceral horror while the Japanese approach tends...

Look up horror in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Horror may refer to: Horror fiction, a genre of fiction Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction Korean...

A horror game is a video game genre centered on horror fiction and typically designed to scare the player. The term may also be used to describe tabletop...

Body horror, or biological horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of...

World of Horror, also known by its Japanese title Kyōfu no Sekai (恐怖の世界), is a role-playing video game with a 1-bit pixel art style inspired by the works...

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten...

Umezu's Horror Theater (Japanese: 楳図かずお恐怖劇場, Hepburn: Umezu Kazuo: Kyōfu gekijō), also known as Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater, is a Japanese six-part...

Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable...

2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (Japanese: ギニーピッグ2 血肉の華, Hepburn: Ginī Piggu 2: Chiniku no Hana) is a 1985 Japanese horror film written and directed by Hideshi...

relationship. Audition was originally a project of the Japanese company Omega Project, who wanted to make a horror film after the massive financial success of their...

aspect of horror. Korean horror features many of the same motifs, themes, and imagery as Japanese horror. Modern South Korean horror films are typically distinguished...

Samurai Horror Tales, known in Japan as Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror (怪 〜ayakashi〜 Japanese Classic Horror), is a Japanese anime horror anthology...

experiment raising the dead. Other stories, originating mostly in Japanese horror, involves classical terrors such as ghosts, spirits or curses propagating...

J-Horror Theater (Jホラーシアター, J horā shiatā) 2004 – 2010 is an anthology of 6 Japanese horror films produced by producer Takashige Ichise (一瀬 隆重, ichise...

Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二, Hepburn: Itō Junji, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include Tomie, a...

Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ, Noroi) is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed and co-written by Kōji Shiraishi. It stars Jin Muraki as Masafumi Kobayashi, a paranormal...

(エログロ), also known as guro, is a Japanese genre of erotic art that focuses on a mix of eroticism with grotesque and horror elements. Originating from the...

Fragments of Horror (魔（ま）の断片（かけら）, Ma no Kakera) is a Japanese horror anthology manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. It was serialized in...

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories also known in Japan as Yami Shibai (闇芝居, Yami Shibai, lit. Dark Play) and Theater of Darkness is a Japanese anime series...

Sweet Home (Japanese: スウィートホーム, Hepburn: Suwīto Hōmu), also known as The Mamiya House, is a 1989 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and...

highest-grossing horror remakes of all time. The success of The Ring inspired American remakes of several other Asian and Japanese horror films, including...

in Japanese as it once was: Japanese horror books and films such as Ju-on and Ring would more likely be labeled by the katakana horā (ホラー, "horror")....

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural...

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment (Japanese: ギニーピッグ 悪魔の実験, Hepburn: Ginī Piggu: Akuma no Jikken) is a 1985 Japanese horror film written and directed by Satoru...

Horror of the Wolf (Japanese: 狼の紋章, Hepburn: Ōkami no monshō, lit. 'Crest of the Wolf') is a 1973 Japanese horror film directed by Masashi Matsumoto and...

Ring (リング, Ringu) is a 1998 Japanese supernatural psychological horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki. The film...

Horny House of Horror (ファッション·ヘル（ス）, Fasshon heru(su)) is a 2010 Japanese horror parody film directed and written by Jun Tsugita. The film is about three...

Fatal Frame, titled Zero in Japan and Project Zero in Europe and Australia, is a Japanese survival horror video game series that was created, published...